In pictures: Leaving Bolivia

The Spanish came to Bolivia in the 16th Century to plunder its silver.

Now some rural Bolivians are making the reverse journey in search of modern-day riches.

Jose’s wife is part of a mass economic migration of people from Tablas Monte, a small village of just 200 families, clinging to the eastern slopes of the Andes at the edge of the Amazon Basin.

In the last year, nearly 100 people have left to seek their fortunes in Spain